It’s tempting to say Ichiro Suzuki, with his detached sense of cool, record-breaking hitting prowess and 28 seasons of ...

TOKYO — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home, he’s a wellspring of national ...

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare ...

In the wake of Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki announcing he'll be signing with the Dodgers, the baseball world will anticipate with excitement the arrival of the star right-hander in the Major Leagues.

Despite pursuing the two biggest Japanese superstars to come over to MLB in the past two years (Yoshinobu Yamamoto last ...

As the first Japanese position player to succeed in MLB, he opened doors for stars like Shohei Ohtani and Hideki Matsui. His meticulous professionalism, global appeal, and contributions to the ...

passing Hideki Matsui, and he set the mark for most steals in a season by a Japanese player, passing Ichiro. And there's also this, from Sarah Langs of MLB.com: players with at least 1 season with ...

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan. Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the Pacific buoyed the ...